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I'll take an unenchanted weapon over a fire aspect one any day. Mobs killed by fire aspect don't drop experience unless you've hit them very shortly before they died; while a mob is taking fire damage, you can't hit it again, so you have to time your swings in between fire ticks to have them do...

Chance to spawn with armor is relatively rare, and chance to drop armor when killed is rarer still. Maybe you just didn't get lucky during testing? I know for sure that wither skeletons will drop stone swords, but I haven't run a setup like this on zombies or regular skeletons. Incidentally, I...

Depends. An iron pipe will bounce items back if there's no room, provided that your items aren't too close together. If an item has passed the halfway point in the iron pipe (or maybe just entered it? Not sure exactly) when the inventory becomes full, it'll pop out. However, if you're pumping...

Maybe crafty turtles work differently, but on the crafting grid you can put two fully repaired items together and repair them again. Not sure how you'd detect when something has been fully repaired...best way might be to try to store it in a barrel, as mentioned above.

Is your swamp too well-lit? Unlike cave slimes, swamp slimes are sensitive to light level and require darkness to spawn.

Filler with water source block items in it, maybe? Haven't tried, but it seems like it'd work.

You won't lose princesses through breeding, though you may have to repurify them by repeatedly breeding with drones of a particular type. You'll only need roughly as many princesses as bee species you want to keep around, plus any extras if you want to double up on a particular species. Get a...

Really? Unless this changed recently, renaming the item permanently caps it at 2. You don't have to rename a second time after repairing/enchanting.

Episode 74: Technological advancement

Naming your items prevents their repair cost from increasing each time you put them into an anvil, and will in fact reset the cost increase to 1. If you're in a situation where a tool is no longer repairable, naming it might resolve that (and naming can never be too expensive as I recall)...

I must be doing it wrong, because I always end up with a huge surplus of nikolite, to the point where I ignore it completely on caving trips now. What use are you finding for so much of it?

Interesting! Sounds like you've found a bug that indicates biome requirements are incorrectly handled when using nova frames. If you can isolate it and you're sure this is what's happening, it'd be worthwhile to make a bug report to the appropriate place. Nova frames are an ExtraBees thing...

There's a problem with the word "lag", which makes me avoid using it entirely - it's used to describe a wide variety of unrelated phenomena. Generik's frame rate dropped noticeably while he was at spawn, but that has entirely to do with client side performance, and nothing at all on the server...

Generikb put up a video with lots of details about their investigation: Seemingly, their problems were coming from a combination of Xycraft tanks, chickens in water, long Buildcraft waterproof pipes (the ones carrying biomass at spawn) running into unloaded chunks, and the way ChickenChunks...

Yep, sounds right. I hadn't tested it myself; probably got my information mixed up somewhere along the way. Thanks for setting me straight!

Here are a few: - Make sure only the two types of trees you want to breed are in range of your bees. Pollination range is remarkably large, so you might have to clear out a few stray trees along the edges. - Use bees with improved pollination speed traits. Aura bees are the best. For early...

That's why I'm waiting for the more detailed explanation. The tweet doesn't tell the whole story.

Not necessarily just iridium plates; you also need large amounts of industrial TNT to turn gem dusts from bees into anything useful.

It seems Mindcrack's problem might have been Xycraft tanks after all: https://twitter.com/GuudeLP/status/334263395442384896 I guess we'll have to wait until Guude, Etho, or Generkb's next video to see if they give a more detailed explanation.

It's certainly not a common case, but I can imagine a situation where I want to run bees for production without dealing with excess drones. Once you have all of your other traits established, you could use 1x fertility serum and potentially save on an apiarist's pipe and a void pipe. That said...